Quite frankly the Reloop info does not clearly state if the audio output as it’s described is phono or line. That said, as the issue seems to be low signal strength rather than over-steering your mixer input I am gonna go with it being phono out, a choice supported by the fact that there is a ground cable too.
Then we go to the mixer. On the back are two sets of inputs and a phono/line input switch per channel. This is a bit confusion as the layout suggests that you could hook up extra tt’s to the line input, hit the phone switch and have it act as extra phono inputs. Reading the manual though it looks like it’s the other way around. If the switch is set to line, the phono inputs become extra line inputs.
So in order for everything to work properly, based on the available info, things should be hooked up and set like this:
1) phono RCA from TT to PHONO input on mixer (including ground wire)
2) switch on back mixer set to PHONO
3) switch on top mixer set to PHONO
4) all gains set correctly, including cross-fader
I doubt you connected the stylus wrong, it pretty much just fits one way only. And they are very decent cartridges, so I wouldn’t look for the problem there.
Let us know if this helps.
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